Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-08-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 August 2010, Neil McGovern wrote: As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of August for the removal of the package unless there's significant progress to fixing the issue. I still feel this is an overreaction as only the original reporter has ever seen

Bug#590993: installation-reports: netboot install report broken mirror if installation CD is used as mirror

2010-07-30 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 590993 debian-cd severity 590993 normal thanks Since you are trying something that's not really supported, this is certainly *not* a grave issue. After all, a CD image is not a mirror even if both contain a repository. It is correct that the error occurs because CD images have

Bug#588608: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-16 Thread Frans Pop
Steve Langasek wrote: This manual represents the opinion of a single developer. And what does that have to do with the price of bananas in Iceland? The fact that aptitude is currently the recommended tool for package management has various reasons: user interface, features, dependency

Bug#583388: Non-US keyboard problem with graphical installer

2010-07-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: 5. Fix for real:    Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/keyboard-configuration.config, and add the    following line in ask_debconf(), right before the if part, once all    choices have been merged together:       choices=`echo $choices | sed 's/,$//'`

Bug#583388: Non-US keyboard problem with graphical installer

2010-07-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl (06/07/2010): The proposed fix could well be OK, but maybe the code can be fixed a bit earlier so the trailing comma is avoided in the first place? Whatever unbreaks g-i. Not really. There's also such things

Bug#505609: [SOLVED] Unbootable after kernel upgrade: Lilo can't load kernel

2010-05-30 Thread Frans Pop
reopen 505609 reassign 505609 linux-2.6 affects 505609 lilo thanks Stephen Powell wrote: The real question is, Why didn't the map installer get run during the kernel upgrade? [...] So is this a bug in the kernel maintainer scripts? Or is it a feature? I don't know. I'll leave that up to

Bug#582223: partman - Wants to overwrite swap partition/lv

2010-05-19 Thread Frans Pop
severity 582223 normal tags 582223 wontfix thanks On Wednesday 19 May 2010, Bastian Blank wrote: partman wants to overwrite the swap partitions on a already setup machine. As swap partition can contain hibernation data, this is an data-destroying operation. Doing any system install while the

Bug#580799: linux-image-2.6.32-5-sparc64: Should include pata_cmd64x driver instead of cmd64x

2010-05-08 Thread Frans Pop
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-12 Severity: serious Because of the IDE - ATA transition for Squeeze the pata_cmd64x driver should be enabled instead of the (old) cmd64x driver. AFAIK the pata_cmd64x has been tested and is known to work correctly. My system failed to boot after updrading to

Bug#579948: SunBlade 1000 installation report - fails to mount root partition on /target

2010-05-02 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 579948 libparted0debian1 2.2-5 tags 579948 d-i affects 579948 partman-base thanks On Sunday 02 May 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:57:48PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8864 cylinders

Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Robert Lemmen wrote: unless you object soon, i will suggest the removal of these packages from testing. the rationale is (a mixture of these will apply to the package in question) This package should not be removed. The bug is partly theoretical and only affects a

Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Robert Lemmen wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:51:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: This package should not be removed. The bug is partly theoretical and only affects a minority of use cases. ok, so you think it should be squeeze-ignore? do you think it should

Bug#574854: libklibc-dev: D-I rootskel FTBFS because of missing header files

2010-03-21 Thread Frans Pop
Package: libklibc-dev Version: 1.5.16-1 Severity: serious The D-I package rootskel failed to build with this version and also after upgrading to 1.5.17-2 because header files could not be found. The cause was traced to the fact that instead of symlinks there are empty directories: $ ls -dl

Bug#571044: [Debian-hebrew-package] Bug#571044: FYI: daily images borked; cause not yet known

2010-02-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 February 2010, أحمد المحمودي wrote: So, after reading #570581, is this actually a fribidi or a newt bug ? It can probably be argued that it's both :-) In newt for not initializing and in fribidi for not terminating. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#571044: [Debian-hebrew-package] Bug#571044: Seeing this with debconf prompts

2010-02-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 23 February 2010, أحمد المحمودي wrote: That's debconf right ? Both debconf D-I use newt, am I right about this ? Yes, that's correct. You should probably also be able to reproduce the issue using whiptail. Note that D-I uses cdebconf (C implementation) and not debconf (perl

Bug#571044: fribidi: new version causes regressions in Debian Installer

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
Package: fribidi Version: 0.19.2-1 Severity: serious Tags: d-i We're seeing regressions in the newt frontend with the new version of the fribidi udeb, as these screenshots show: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/daily-borked2.png http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/daily-borked3.png Note

Bug#570749: vlc-data: file conflict with Lenny version of vlc

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
Package: vlc-data Version: 1.0.5-1 Severity: serious I backported vlc myself for Lenny from unstable. During the upgrade (from version 0.8.6.h-4+lenny2) I got the following error: Unpacking vlc-data (from .../vlc-data_1.0.5-1~bpo1_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing

Bug#570906: w3m: Recommends for migemo should be lowered to Suggests

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.2-2.1 Justification: Policy 7.2 Severity: serious Given the package description for migemo installing it as a Recommends and thus by default for all users of w3g is IMO not correct. Recommends should only be used (see policy 7.2) for packages that are found together in

Bug#551646: installation-reports: [i386] installation failed using netboot

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
screen on PC hangs, the splash screen and the boot prompt does not appear last line of the screen: Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default We've had another report of the same issue where the problem was identified. It's a known limitation of syslinux, which is documented in the installation

Bug#512740: Sparc disk labels broken on LDOM and Parallel installs

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 February 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: 1. dh-di needed for build of partman-base is not pulled in as a result of 'apt-get build-dep debian-installer', probably should be? No: base-installer is a separate source package and thus has its own build deps. I just forgot to include a step

Bug#569763: I cannot install lenny 5.04 mini.iso because of problem configuring DHCP.

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
merge 569763 569761 severity 569763 normal tags 569763 moreinfo thanks On Sunday 14 February 2010, Patrick Naylor wrote: Comments/Problems: The network modem is detected. The DHCP configuration failed. I cannot continue with the installing process. Being loaded at the same hw the lenny 5.03

Bug#569719: cdrom: sparc testing 20100208 will not boot after CD install, stuck at openboot.

2010-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 569719 linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 1.49 severity 569719 important thanks On Saturday 13 February 2010, James Boughton wrote: Installation from the three CD's for the Feb 8, 2010 build of sparc testing seems to go without a hitch. The problem is that the system will not then boot from

Bug#512740: Sparc disk labels broken on LDOM and Parallel installs

2010-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:04:05PM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: My main concern is whether it affects installer in any adverse way, so if you could arrange for an installer image to be built with the modified parted, we could do some

Bug#568639: debian-installer: winxp partition detected, but not added to grub.cfg

2010-02-06 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 568639 grub-pc 1.98~20100115-1 severity 568639 important thanks On Saturday 06 February 2010, Miroslav Rudisin wrote: At the end of installation of debian testing from netboot.tar.gz (build 20100122) the windows xp partition was correctly detected, because the dialog if you see all

Bug#568381: debconf segfauls with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text

2010-02-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 05 February 2010, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:52:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote: I've traced this to Colin's commit that adds the passthrough frontend (r59807). If I revert that the text frontend works fine again. Fixed in r62177. I've asked Otavio on IRC

Bug#568529: overwrites MBR of installation medium

2010-02-05 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 568529 grub-installer 1.49 severity 568529 serious thanks On Friday 05 February 2010, Piotr Lewandowski wrote: I'm aware that device enumeration issues were reported in #517563 and #516280 and are present in errata for lenny release RC2, but I believe that installer should not

Bug#568381: debconf segfauls with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text

2010-02-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 04 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: But I can confirm as I'm also seeing a segfault during an installation on s390. During mirror selection (but not 100% reliably). And can also confirm for amd64 in Virtualbox, also during mirror selection. And it does not go away if I recompile

Bug#568381: debconf segfauls with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text

2010-02-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 04 February 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Marko Jung reported that d-i segfaults when you use DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text. I can reproduce this. I've traced this to Colin's commit that adds the passthrough frontend (r59807). If I revert that the text frontend works fine again. It may

Bug#568381: debconf segfauls with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text

2010-02-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 04 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: And it does not go away if I recompile cdebconf (tried for amd64). ^^^-- This is similar to what happened in powerpc to me. I have no glue why

Bug#559815: gcc warnings about array bounds in Hercules

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
Just happened to be looking at the BTS... Thorsten Glaser wrote: You might want to have a look at all these gcc warnings about array accesses being below/above array bounds, though. There may be more security issues hiding. These warnings have been fixed in the upcoming upstream release.

Bug#567337: Regression: '::' prefix for targets no longer works

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
Package: dosfstools Version: 3.0.8-1 Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: Breaks Debian Installer With the new version we're getting the following errors during builds of images for D-I. On i386: mcopy -i./tmp/hd-media/boot.img ./tmp/hd-media/vmlinuz ::linux Cannot initialize '::' On

Bug#562525: linux-2.6: [s390] Etch proposed-updates kernel boot failure

2010-01-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 19 January 2010, dann frazier wrote: This fixes the issue for me, can you verify? zelenka.debian.org:~dannf/linux-image-2.6.18-6-s390_2.6.18.dfsg.1-27~562 525.testfix.1_s390.deb Works for me too. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#565433: localization-config-deb: udeb depends on debconf

2010-01-15 Thread Frans Pop
Package: localization-config-udeb Version: 1.06 Severity: serious A dependency on debconf was added, but debconf is not a valid udeb. This incorrect dependency was added for some reason in today's upload. If a dependency on debconf is needed (Lintian warning?), then please add ${misc:Depends}

Bug#564489: multipath-udeb: Has depedency on multipath-tools, which does not exist

2010-01-15 Thread Frans Pop
found 564489 0.4.8+git0.761c66f-6 thanks Reopening as the patch was applied incorrectly. The --udeb option should be added to dh_makeshlibs, not to dh_shlibdeps! P.S. Note that you also have build failures on mips and mipsel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#564489: multipath-udeb: Has depedency on multipath-tools, which does not exist

2010-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
Package: multipath-udeb Version: 0.4.8+git0.761c66f-5 Severity: serious Tags: d-i multipath-udeb currently has a dependency on multipath-tools. This is incorrect as no such udeb exists. Please fix the packaging so this dependency is no longer generated. If help with that is needed, please try

Bug#564489: multipath-udeb: Has dependency on multipath-tools, which does not exist

2010-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
tags 564489 patch thanks The correct fix for this is to tell the build tools to look in multipath-udeb for libraries when building the udeb (instead of looking in multipath-tools). The resulting self-dependency is automatically filtered out. Needed change in debian/rules:

Bug#562525: linux-2.6: [s390] Etch proposed-updates kernel boot failure

2010-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 03 January 2010, dann frazier wrote: Thanks. This suggests that the fixes for CVE-2009-0029 are causal. To verify, can you test this kernel which drops only those fixes? zelenka.debian.org:~dannf/linux-headers-2.6.18-6-s390_2.6.18.dfsg.1-26et ch1+nocve20090029_s390.deb

Bug#562190: mac-fdisk: udebs should depend on libc6-udeb instead of libc6

2010-01-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 02 January 2010, Michael Schmitz wrote: I've build tested the attached patch on a porter box and to me the result looks good. I can build it on my powerbook but testing it (short of installing it on I have considered doing an NMU, but was scared off by the huge amount of

Bug#562525: linux-2.6: [s390] Etch proposed-updates kernel boot failure

2010-01-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 02 January 2010, you wrote: Can you try: zelenka.debian.org:~dannf/linux-image-2.6.18-6-s390_2.6.18.dfsg.1-26etch 1+div64_s390.deb Linux version 2.6.18-6-s390 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-26etch1+div64) [...] Failed to execute /init Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing

Bug#562525: linux-2.6: [s390] Etch proposed-updates kernel boot failure

2009-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 29 December 2009, dann frazier wrote: I don't see an obvious cause for the failure. Can you try booting 24etch1 in an effort to bisect the failure? In case you can't find the deb (I couldn't) I've built one that you can find in my home directory on zelenka.debian.org. Linux version

Bug#562143: apt is no longer in base system created by debootstrap?

2009-12-27 Thread Frans Pop
Torsten Werner wrote: The Build-Essential: yes field has been updated 2 months ago to better match the declared Depends in the package build-essential as requested in bug #548801. It seems there is a misunderstanding about the purpose of the Build-Essential flag then. Obviously it is not to

Bug#562143: apt is no longer in base system created by debootstrap?

2009-12-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 27 December 2009, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:39:28PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: From that perspective apt should be tagged Build-Essential. Simply because without apt you don't have a working build system. apt is not and never was needed to build a package

Bug#562525: linux-2.6: [s390] Etch proposed-updates kernel boot failure

2009-12-25 Thread Frans Pop
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: serious Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-26etch1 Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-CC: da...@debian-org While testing the update for oldstable of debian-installer on my Hercules s390 emulator, I found that the new kernel fails to boot. It fails to execute init after loading the initramfs.

Bug#562503: #562503 upgrade of man-db hangs during postinst, consumes 100% cpu for over 30 minutes

2009-12-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 25 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: I'm seeing the same issue in an amd64/sid pbuilder environment when mandb gets installed as one of the build dependencies of cdebconf-entropy. To show the severity of the issue, this is from my sparc box during a regular upgrade (last one was 2

Bug#562398: anna: fails if multiple versions of a udeb in Packages file

2009-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
Package: anna Severity: serious Yesterday I uploaded some packages, including base-installer and hw-detect. Today during a test install from a local build this resulted in: Failed to load installer component loading base-installer failed for unknown reasons.

Bug#562398: anna: fails if multiple versions of a udeb in Packages file

2009-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: So the error is probably the result of anna trying to install the same package twice. The exit code of anna was 8, which matches an error during unpack or configure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#562190: mac-fdisk: udebs should depend on libc6-udeb instead of libc6

2009-12-23 Thread Frans Pop
Package: mac-fdisk Version: 0.1-15 Severity: serious Tags: patch d-i The udebs do not get a correct dependency on libc6-udeb, but instead depend on the regular libc6 package. We've ignored this for previous releases, but for Squeeze it's RC because of britney support for udebs. I originally

Bug#552497: hw-detect: file conflict with udev-udeb for /lib/udev/firmware.agent

2009-12-23 Thread Frans Pop
tag 552497 - pending thanks There is a difference between the scripts. The hw-detect version writes some info to a file needed to support firmware loading. There are however two issues. 1) The custom script never gets included in initrds as hw-detect gets unpacked first and thus the original

Bug#552497: hw-detect: file conflict with udev-udeb for /lib/udev/firmware.agent

2009-12-23 Thread Frans Pop
tag 552497 - pending thanks On Thursday 24 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: There are however two issues. 1) The custom script never gets included in initrds as hw-detect gets unpacked first and thus the original udev version of the script overwrites the modified hw-detect version. 2) The two

Bug#562014: dmidecode-udeb: should depend on libc6-udeb instead of libc6

2009-12-22 Thread Frans Pop
tag 562014 pending thanks On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: The udeb does not get a correct dependency on libc6-udeb, but instead depends on the regular libc6 package. Given that the last maintainer upload for dmidecode was very long ago, I've uploaded an NMU to the 5-day delayed

Bug#562001: beep-udeb: should depend on libc6-udeb instead of libc6

2009-12-21 Thread Frans Pop
Package: beep Version: 1.2.2-23 Severity: serious Tags: patch d-i X-Debbugs-CC: debian-b...@lists.debian.org The udeb does not get a correct dependency on libc6-udeb, but instead depends on the regular libc6 package. Personally I would recommend a switch to debhelper for the packaging as it's

Bug#562014: dmidecode-udeb: should depend on libc6-udeb instead of libc6

2009-12-21 Thread Frans Pop
Package: dmidecode Version: 2.9-1.1 Severity: serious Tags: patch d-i X-Debbugs-CC: debian-b...@lists.debian.org The udeb does not get a correct dependency on libc6-udeb, but instead depends on the regular libc6 package. The basic reason is that the control file does not set the correct package

Bug#551929: [Adduser-devel] Bug#551929: deluser: creates backup of user's files when not requested

2009-12-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 18 December 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: Both of these requests are completely reasonable, but conflict, so I think probably what I'll do is go for option b, and have deluser fail if --backup-to is set but --backup isn't. Given that we ship a default of '.', that should at least be the

Bug#558980: Fwd: Re: access to hppa machine to work on Bug#558980

2009-12-13 Thread Frans Pop
--- Forwarded message (begin) From: Stephen Leake stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:03:24 +0100 Frans Pop gave me access to his machine. I have some more information on the bug. If I compile from full GNADE source (not using the GNADE dynamic or static

Bug#558980: Fwd: Re: access to hppa machine to work on Bug#558980

2009-12-13 Thread Frans Pop
--- Forwarded message (begin) From: Carlos O'Donell car...@systemhalted.org Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:39:17 +0100 On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Stephen Leake wrote: Frans Pop gave me access to his machine. I have some more information on the bug. If I compile from full GNADE

Bug#560068: libslang2: Library reduction for Debian Installer fails

2009-12-08 Thread Frans Pop
Package: libslang2 Version: 2.2.2-1 Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: Breaks Debian Installer image builds Since the update of libslang2 earlier today building Debian Installer images on amd64 fails during library reduction (mklibs) with: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib//libslang.a(sldisply.o):

Bug#538354: sysconfig-hardware: Fails to activate extra dasd when system shell is dash

2009-12-01 Thread Frans Pop
. + + -- Frans Pop f...@debian.org Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:00:15 +0100 + sysconfig (0.0.9) unstable; urgency=low * Don't use the deprecated PHYSDEVPATH interface. diff -Nru sysconfig-0.0.9/debian/compat sysconfig-0.0.9+nmu1/debian/compat --- sysconfig-0.0.9/debian/compat 2008-07-04 12:49:34.0

Bug#538086: installation-reports: Installation works, but neither is user created nor a root password set

2009-11-18 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 538086 user-setup 1.23 retitle 538086 user-setup: Lenny version is incompatible with Squeeze/Sid tags 538086 lenny wontfix thanks On Wednesday 18 November 2009, Yaroslav Rozhylo wrote: Steps to reproduce: 1. Boot from CD debian-503-i386-businesscard.iso 2. Advanced Installation - KDE

Bug#552576: live-installer: should have a Standards-Version field

2009-10-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: The live-installer source package not only has a udeb, but also a deb. This means that it must also have a Standards-Version field in debian/control. Only source packages that have *only* udebs are allowed to omit that field. When this is fixed

Bug#552576: live-installer: should have a Standards-Version field

2009-10-27 Thread Frans Pop
Package: live-installer Version: 13 Severity: serious The live-installer source package not only has a udeb, but also a deb. This means that it must also have a Standards-Version field in debian/control. Only source packages that have *only* udebs are allowed to omit that field. -- To

Bug#552497: hw-detect: file conflict with udev-udeb for /lib/udev/firmware.agent

2009-10-26 Thread Frans Pop
Package: hw-detect Version: 1.73 Severity: serious During a D-I build on armel I noticed the following: Unpacking udev-udeb (from udebs/udev-udeb.udeb) ... dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: trying to overwrite '/lib/udev/firmware.agent', which is also in package

Bug#552233: locales: cannot map archive header: Invalid argument

2009-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
Package: locales Version: 2.10.1-2 Severity: serious During a regular upgrade from version 2.9.-25 I got the following error: Generating locales (this might take a while)... en_US.UTF-8...cannot map archive header: Invalid argument done Generation complete. I read #524483, but this looks to

Bug#546834: debootstrap fails when invoked from lh_build

2009-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 546834 util-linux 2.16-3 severity 546834 serious affects 546834 debootstrap tags 546834 d-i thanks On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Tak Auyeung wrote: lh_build failed and stopped in debootstrap phase. lh_build is set up to use sid for both bootstrap and chroot. Attached please find a

Bug#545801: qcontrol: no longer works in lenny

2009-09-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 09 September 2009, Nis Martensen wrote: After installing the latest stable updates, qcontrol stopped working: qcontrol error: gpio_keys device not available A fixed version of the packages is now also available from the proposed-updates distribution, or it can be downloaded

Bug#545801: qcontrol: no longer works in lenny

2009-09-10 Thread Frans Pop
tags 545801 pending thanks On Thursday 10 September 2009, Nis Martensen wrote: 2009/9/9 Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl: Can you please provide the output of the following command (as root):   udevadm test /class/input/event0 [output of command snipped] Thanks Nis, that confirms my suspicion

Bug#545226: Grub didn't install because diff (cmp) is not installed

2009-09-05 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 545226 ftp.debian.org forcemerge 544478 545226 thanks On Saturday 05 September 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: reassign 545226 grub-installer This has nothing to do with grub-installer. The issue has been reported and analyzed before. See #544478. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#545018: fails to setup squeeze system

2009-09-04 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 545018 libsepol1 2.0.37-1 retitle 545018 libsepol1: causes debootstrap to fail severity 545018 serious thanks This is unlikely to be a bug in debootstrap itself, but more likely to be temporary breakage in the testing distribution. I can reproduce the error and the installation fails

Bug#544400: s390 Debian Installer panic bug # 536354

2009-08-31 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 544400 debian-installer forcemerge 536375 544400 thanks This is my first install of debian on s390. I downloaded your images, booted and got a kernel panic. This looks like problem # 536354. Correct. The kernel is now fixed, but the installer still needs to be updated, which will

Bug#544478: grub-legacy: should depend on diffutils

2009-08-31 Thread Frans Pop
Package: grub-legacy Version: 0.97-56 Severity: serious Tags: d-i List-CC: diffut...@packages.debian.org During a new installation using D-I of testing today I got: /usr/sbin/grub-install: 400: cmp: not found cmp is from the recently renamed diffutils, which is no longer required and

Bug#543590: directfb: regressions in D-I with experimental 1.4 version

2009-08-25 Thread Frans Pop
Package: directfb Version: 1.4.1-2 Severity: serious Tags: d-i As already announced in my reply to the call to test the 1.4 version in experimental, this version introduces a few of important regression in Debian Installer. I've built cairo, gtk+2.0 and cdebconf (all from unstable) against it

Bug#541725: eglibc: libc6-udeb is empty causing Debian installs to fail

2009-08-15 Thread Frans Pop
Package: eglibc Version: 2.9-24 Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: Breaks Debian Installer In the latest upload the udebs for all architectures are empty. This breaks installations at the partitioning stage and later as symbols cannot be found: md-devices: mdadm: relocation error: mdadm:

Bug#541115: busybox: No longer creates tty[1-4] devices on s390

2009-08-11 Thread Frans Pop
Package: busybox Severity: serious Version: 1:1.14.2-1 Tags: d-i On s390 the installer fails to boot with: can't open /dev/tty2: No such file or directory can't open /dev/tty3: No such file or directory can't open /dev/tty4: No such file or directory I'm not sure how busybox can be responsible

Bug#541112: kde cd does not install kde, nor a working graphical environment.

2009-08-11 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 541112 ftp.debian.org forcemerge 536312 541112 thanks On Tuesday 11 August 2009, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I've used the 5.0.2 KDE i386 install image (debian-cd/5.0.2/i386/iso-cd/debian-502-i386-kde-CD-1.iso) After a reboot, kdm started and asked for a login/pass. I could log in, but the

Bug#541115: busybox: No longer creates tty[1-4] devices on s390

2009-08-11 Thread Frans Pop
It looks like busybox also causes a failure on i386. If I boot a daily mini.iso, the boot hangs when executing the last line from /sbin/init: exec /usr/sbin/chroot . /bin/busybox init /dev/console /dev/console 21 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#540023: cdrom: netinst installation might freeze with out-of-date keyring

2009-08-05 Thread Frans Pop
severity 540023 wishlist reassign 540023 debian-installer thanks On Wednesday 05 August 2009, Patrick Vervoorn wrote: Digging deeper, finally the output shown in the output from the underlying installation scripts (Alt-F4), showed what had happened: the PGP-keyring was out of date, and the big

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

2009-08-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: And yes, replacing the UUIDs in the fstab by regular devices gets rid of the segfault. Still weird that an empty mtab avoids it though. Colin, any thoughts (given that you implemented the switch to UUID)? The problem is essentially that we have

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

2009-08-04 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 539744 base-installer tags 539744 pending thanks On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: One, IMO fairly logical, solution to this could be to not let partman create /etc/fstab *in* /target, but instead create it somewhere in the the D-I environment and then let a base-installer.d

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

2009-08-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 04 August 2009, you wrote: Frans Pop wrote: This oneliner change would fix the issue as well: +++ b/packages/base-installer/debian/bootstrap-base.postinst @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ install_base_system () { # so make a backup to be restored later

Bug#539586: [s390] partman-base: fails ugly when ext4 is selected

2009-08-03 Thread Frans Pop
severity 539586 normal retitle 539586 [s390] partman-base: fails ugly when ext4 is selected thanks On Sunday 02 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: I just tried an install on s390 and after I chose ext4 as partition I got a dialog containing only ? / ? (or something close to that). I think

Bug#539586: partman-base

2009-08-02 Thread Frans Pop
Package: partman-base Version: 129 Severity: serious I just tried an install on s390 and after I chose ext4 as partition I got a dialog containing only ? / ? (or something close to that). I also got the following in the syslog: main-menu[622]: INFO: Menu item 'partman-base' selected

Bug#539425: On upgrade of existing system, dash becomes system default if debconf non-interactive

2009-07-31 Thread Frans Pop
Package: dash Version: 0.5.5.1-2.3 Severity: serious During the upgrade of a pbuilder environment I noticed that if DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive, and possibly also if debconf is not available at all, dash - when not previously installed - can not ask its question and will thus become the

Bug#539425: On upgrade of existing system, dash becomes system default if debconf non-interactive

2009-07-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 31 July 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: Wasn't the plan to do this differently in noninteractive installs, precisely because dash should become the default /bin/sh on build systems? Well, how would you distinguish between a build system and a regular system at some user that for whatever

Bug#535513: daily fails to generate ramdisk because / not mounted

2009-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com [2009-07-02 22:39]: I just tried a daily image on ARM and it failed because the ramdisk cannot be generated. Apparently this is because / is not mounted in the chroot. I don't know why root is no longer

Bug#535513: daily fails to generate ramdisk because / not mounted

2009-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl [2009-07-21 16:23]: What *exactly* do you mean by / is no longer mounted? It seems to me that it is kind of a silly statement because without a / I would say you can't have a chroot. I guess what you mean

Bug#536312: task overrides for stable appear to be updated when unstable changes - no network-manager etc in default debian 5.0r2 install

2009-07-10 Thread Frans Pop
Here's an (untested) patch that should avoid this issue for the future. It determines the codename for testing from the testing symlink. A manual cleanup for the current incorrect override files (for both lenny and squeeze) will still be needed of course. Cheers, FJP ---

Bug#536312: task overrides for stable appear to be updated when unstable changes - no network-manager etc in default debian 5.0r2 install

2009-07-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 10 July 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Here's an (untested) patch that should avoid this issue for the future. It determines the codename for testing from the testing symlink. As the script is maybe not under version control, attached the full new version. mk-extra-overrides.sh

Bug#536353: debian-installer: [s390,etch] gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found

2009-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debian-installer Version: 20070308etch5 Severity: serious Installs of Etch for s390 fail because the Release signature cannot be verified. From the syslog: Jul 9 09:33:42 main-menu[656]: INFO: Menu item 'choose-mirror' selected Jul 9 09:33:47 choose-mirror[808]: DEBUG: command: wget

Bug#536375: debian-installer: [s390,lenny] kernel panic during boot

2009-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debian-installer Version: 20090123lenny3 Severity: serious Installs of Lenny for s390 fail because of a kernel problem. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/2009/07/msg2.html for details. A bug against the kernel has already been reported (#536354). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#536312: task overrides for stable appear to be updated when unstable changes - no network-manager etc in default debian 5.0r2 install

2009-07-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 09 July 2009, Joey Hess wrote: Ftpmasters: Task override updating is handled by an autobyhand script fjp wrote, /srv/ftp.debian.org/dak/scripts/debian/byhand-task. I don't have access to look at what's on ftpmaster, AFAIK everything can also be found on merkel though. but looking

Bug#527641: Package installation overwrites /etc/default/console-setup without warning

2009-05-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: To fix it, you have to: 1/ document in the file that it's auto-updated based on the debconf infos and that dpkg-reconfigure console-setup is recommended to update it 2/ use ucf or something similar to detect if the file has been edited by the

Bug#517231: Processed: forcibly merging 517231 528929

2009-05-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 May 2009, Frans Pop wrote: There may be a problem with weekly built CD images too. In this period (after a Debian release and before the first Beta, when udeb migrations are allowed without worrying about breaking D-I images in testing) they really should be built using D-I images

Bug#517231: Processed: forcibly merging 517231 528929

2009-05-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 May 2009, Aurelien Jarno wrote: This is why it only appears with images generated with glibc 2.7 (ie lenny images), and not with the daily ones which use glibc 2.9. This type pf problem is well known and will not get fixed until the first Beta release of D-I. It is also virtually

Bug#517231: Processed: forcibly merging 517231 528929

2009-05-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 May 2009, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 17 May 2009, Aurelien Jarno wrote: This is why it only appears with images generated with glibc 2.7 (ie lenny images), and not with the daily ones which use glibc 2.9. This type pf problem is well known and will not get fixed until

Bug#517231: Processed: forcibly merging 517231 528929

2009-05-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 May 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Basically: you very simply cannot use images built for Lenny to install Squeeze. At least not netboot images. I guess that if you took a Lenny businesscard CD and selected expert mode, it would happily install Squeeze if you asked it to. Reason

Bug#528443: debian-installer: error setting up powerpc-utils cannot stat `/etc/adjtime'

2009-05-12 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 528443 powerpc-utils 1.1.3-22 severity 528443 important thanks On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: Everything progressed normally until during the installation of the base packages, it failed. According to the syslog file there was a problem setting up the powerpc-utils

Bug#504721: Reason for console detection failure on Sparc Niagara

2009-05-03 Thread Frans Pop
-- Forwarded Message -- From: David Miller da...@davemloft.net The reason this bug happens is because CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE is enabled in the kernel. It unconditionally gets registered as a real console before the Sun Hypervisor console driver has a chance to register. The

Bug#525209: Layout messed up in daily images

2009-04-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 23 April 2009, Frans Pop wrote: This is almost certainly a result of the cdebconf changes committed by Nicolas François (CCed). Although the new version of newt uploaded a few days ago could also be a factor (and possibly even the slightly older slang2 update). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#523151: udev: [s390] Fails to configure additional disk/net devices

2009-04-08 Thread Frans Pop
Package: udev Version: 0.140-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system User: debian-s...@lists.debian.org Usertags: s390 After upgrading udev the system fails to boot correctly as my second disk (dasdb) and network interface (ctc0) are no longer brought up. The initrd loads

Bug#523151: udev: [s390] Fails to configure additional disk/net devices

2009-04-08 Thread Frans Pop
Maybe the following will provide some info: # udevadm test /sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.0121 [...] udev_device_new_from_syspath: device 0x42b828 has devpath '/devices/css0/0.0.0005/0.0.0121' wait_for_file: file '/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0005/0.0.0121/online' appeared after 0 loops

Bug#523151: udev: [s390] Fails to configure additional disk/net devices

2009-04-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 08 April 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Maybe the following will provide some info: # udevadm test /sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.0121 [...] udev_device_new_from_syspath: device 0x42b828 has devpath '/devices/css0/0.0.0005/0.0.0121' wait_for_file: file '/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0005/0.0.0121

Bug#518412: initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep

2009-03-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 19 March 2009, maximilian attems wrote: Recently kernels I built from upstream kernel source failed to boot after unpacking them because no modules got included in the initramfs initrd (and thus no root file system). This problem was solved after downgrading to m-i-t 3.4.1.

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